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Simmonsville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Burkeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75932. It stands on Richland Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shankleville quadrangle.

Simmonsville within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Simmonsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,023 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 97 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism97
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Burkeville3.3 miles9
Stringtown3.6 miles9
Shankleville4.0 miles9
Wiergate4.8 miles9
Liberty5.4 miles9
Quicksand6.9 miles9
Trotti6.9 miles9
Mattox8.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380542. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.